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Kintu is about creating family ties where none existed before, about making homes and families that can reach across the gaps of time and space; it’s also about making up new truths when the old ones are lost


“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
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“For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
― Sonny's Blues
― Sonny's Blues

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin

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